Ray Bradbury seems incandescent with wrath at Michael Moore for
daring to call a film Fahrenheit 9/11. The juicy bits of his 2 June
interview in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter were helpfully
translated by Ahrvid Engholm for
www.trufen.net:
'Michael Moore is a stupid asshole, that's what I think about it. [...] He stole
my title and changed the numbers without ever asking me for permission. [...]
He's a terrible person. Terrible person....' Could this anger be partly fuelled
by political disapproval? Bradbury: 'That has nothing to do with it. He copied
my title, that's what happened. It has nothing to do with my political views.
[...] I could, tomorrow, write a novel and call it Gone with the Wind,
right? But I won't, because it would be dishonest.... Just write that Michael
Moore is dishonest and that I don't want to be associated with him in any way.'
Oh dearie me. Would it be dishonest to publish a book called Gone with the
9/11? Answers on a postcard, please, but not to me.

R.I.P.Gill Fox (1915-2004), US comics artist, editor, and
writer, died on 15 May aged 88. In the 1940s he produced covers for Police
Comics, featuring Jack Cole's 'Plastic Man', and backgrounds and scripts for
Will Eisner's 'The Spirit' in daily newspapers. Lincoln Kilpatrick
(1932-2004), US actor who appeared in Soylent Green and
The Omega Man, died on May 18; he was 72.

Outraged Letters.Paul Barnett on
Runcible 129: 'Since the press reports that
Chrysalis's book division was up for sale, Chrysalis has announced that it's
not for sale, and that all such talk is havering, etc. My sources tell
me that it is in fact being groomed for sale, but not for a year or two yet; a
sort of "reports of the death are premature" situation.'  M.J.
'Simo' Simpson brags (7 June): 'Just got back from spending the day on the
Hitchhiker's Guide film set, albeit in a slightly wrecked state (me, not
the film set) after a night of heavy drinking with the SFX gang to
celebrate
Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams winning Best Non-Fiction in the
SFX Reader Awards. In the light of my success at yesterday's awards, I
would like to make it clear that I have never, ever suggested that SFX
has gone downhill since I left and is now a glorified Buffy fanzine. In
fact I have maintained all along that the magazine is a bastion of good taste
and high class genre journalism.'